40. The Doctrine of Faith and Good Works ftated ana explained : the Subftance of a Sermon on the annual Commemoration of Mr. Weft's Charity, at St. Giles's, Reading, Berks. By John Hallward, A. M. 8vo. 6d. Vallance and Simmons.

The doctrine, which this author endeavours to inculcate is, as he expreffes it, our total guilt and corruption by the fall, our full and free redemption by Chrift alone, through faith, without any works, in whole or in part, before or afterwards, in a way of merit, though accompanied with all forts of good works, in a way of evidence.'

This is as rational a difcourfe as we ufually meet with on Cal viniflic principles.

CONTROVERSIAL. 41. Account of what Concern Dr. Gibbons has had in the late Tranfactions among the Proteftant Diffenters of Northampton. 8vo. 6d. Buckland.

The Monthy Reviewers, in their account of a pamphlet, in July laft, concerning a difpute among the Diffenters at Northampton, inadvertently mistaking another perfon of the fame name for Dr. Gibbons, fuggefted an obfervation, which implied a duplicity in the doctor's conduct relative to this dispute. In the publication before us, the doctor has placed the matter in its proper light; and fully vindicated himself from the charge of infincerity. The reader will find a fhort account of these Tranfactions in our Review, vol. xl. p. 324.

42. Infancy. A Poem. Book the Third. By Hugh Downman, M. D. 4to. 15. Kearfly.

Our ingenious didactic poet, having in the two foregoing books pointed out the proper management of a child at the breast, proceeds to fhew, how he ought to be treated, when he comes to be near two years old, and to require more fubftantial nourishment. At this period, he warmly and pathetically exhorts the parent to confult nature, and the unvitiated appetite. 'Heed well thy child, O parent; he will teach Full oft the diet fuited to his frame.

See with what marks of loathing he at firft
Rejects the hot and acrid; inftin&t dwells
Within, a faithful guard; his rapid pulse
And native warmth by thefe are quickly urged
Beyond their bounds. He relishes the bland,
And to thy tafte th' infipid; these controul
Each motion, nor permit his heat to rife
Above its due degree. Nor less he shuns
Destructive Bacchus; why then will his fire
By frequent repetition ftrive t'o'ercome
Nature's diflike ?'

* See Crit. Rev. vol. xxxix p. 251,

Upon

Upon this principle, he ftrictly prohibits

All things, which housewife art with care preferves,
Acid, or fait, or faccharine: all cates

Of unfermented flour compofed, or those

Of fulfome fweetnefs, and enrich'd with wine."

He then proceeds to recommend that plain and fimple diet, which is fit for children: as, milk, broths, fresh animal food, with vegetables, bread, and water, fruits, and the like.

The author, as he advances, enlivens his precepts with a proper degree of poetical embellishment.

43. Songs, Duets, Trios, &c. in the Duenna; or the Double Elopement, as performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. 8vo. 6d. Wilkie.

The fale of this publication appears to have been fingularly rapid; for the feventh edition of it now lies before us. Indeed, in point of verfification, and ingenuity of fentiment, thefe fongs are undoubtedly the beft that we have feen introduced of late years in the comic drama.

MISCELLANEOUS.

44. An Address to the Members of the Senate of Cambridge, by John Jebb, M. A. 8vo. No Bookfeller's Name, or Price. A plan of public examinations, fubmitted to the confideration of the fenate of Cambridge; which the author intends to propofe to the fuffrages of that affembly, fome day in February. 45. Refignation no Proef. A Letter to Mr. Jebb: with occafional Remarks on his Spirit of Proteftantism, 8vo. 1s. 6d. White. This writer fets out with obferving, that the union of the divine and human nature in the perfon of Jefus Chrift is the object of the New Teftament.' He adds: it feems therefore

unreasonable, that any one, who rejects this most effential ar ticle of the Chriftian faith, should still claim the right of being confidered as a Chriftian.' This privilege however, fays he to Mr. Jebb, you ftill affert in its utmost extent, though in the ftate of your opinions given to the public, you feem to want the primary and moft neceffary qualification... The doctrine of the divinity of Jefus Chrift is of the utmost confequence. It will not admit of the leaft accommodation; it must either be firmly eftablished, or Christianity muft fall with it.'

Inftead of producing a multitude of texts, our author chooses to reft the controverfy, as far as it relates to the divinity of Chrift (which by the way is an equivocal expreffion) on this paffage, John i. 1. In the beginning was the sword, &c. . That is, fays he, when things began to be made, he was, and did not then begin to be: confequently he was eternal.'

St. John feems to allude to Gen. i. 1. where in the beginning cannot mean from eternity; because the fubject, to which this expreffion relates, was creation in time. Beginning implies fome period; but eternity has no period, no beginning. Now, if the

evangelift only meant (as he most probably did) that the perfon ftyled the word, was, not begotten of the Father, at the precife time, when the world was made, but was then with God; without intending to fix any limitation of time whatever to his existence, antecedent to the creation, the foregoing inference is inconclufive,

"The word was with God :" that is, fays this writer together with him, partaker of his happiness and glory.'-If his meaning is, that the word was that fame perfon, whom he was with, it is a contradiction in terms, and the ancient herefy of Sabellius. If he means, that he was, a divine perfon (980) Jubordinate to the father, he gives up the point in debate.

Mr. Jebb has fuppofed, that the right not only of judging for himself, but alfo of avowing that judgement, in whatever manner he thinks proper,' is the privilege of a Proteftant. Our author allows the first part of the claim, but denies the latter; obferving, that a truly confcientious man will be fatisfied with enjoying his opinions in private; and that it is the furious zealot and dogmatift alone, who wish to impose them on others.

With refpect to Mr. Jebb's refignation, he says: So far am I from laying any ftrefs on the refignation of worldly poffeffions, that I fhould be unmoved by acts of much greater mortification. For if fufferings were of any value in evidence, to what a cloud of witnelles might we appeal! They may indeed prove the fincerity of the fufferer, but by no means his doctrine; his own Conviction, but not the strength of his caufe.'

At the conclufion, by way of compromife, he makes this conceffion: If you are contented with the liberty of freely worfhiping God in the fanctuary of your own confcience, forbearing to controvert the opinions of others or impofe your own... great and glorious will be your prefent as well as future reward." Yet, in the very next fentence, he does not allow, that Mr. Jebb has the faith of a Chriftian!

46. Defcription des Royaulmes d'Angleterre et d'Ecoffe, &c. Il luftrated with Cuts and English Notes. 4to. 5s. fewed. Payne.

An account of the manners of our ancestors, written by a Frenchman upwards of 200 years ago, cannot fail to prove an object of curiofity. Foreign teftimony, however, ought to be received with great caution in what relates to national charac ters; and indeed M. Perlin appears evidently too much preju diced in favour of his own country, to be confidered as a can. did and impartial delineator either of the English or Scottish people. It must be acknowledged at the fame time, that, amidst representations apparently much exaggerated, we here meet with fome ftriking lineaments of the British character. From a few anecdotes which he relates, Perlin feems to have been in this country in the two last years of Edward VI. He is fometimes guilty of mistakes with refpect to perfons; and always in the orthography of the places he mentions; but fuch errors of this.

kind as occur are pointed out, and rectified in English notes, by the editor.

In the annexed detail of the reception of the queen mother of France, in England, in 1637, the character of the nation is drawn by the hiftoriographer in more favourable colours than thofe of Perlin; but the narrative is almoft entirely a recital of the honours which were paid to his royal mistress.

47. A Letter to a young Nobleman fetting out on his Travels. 8vo. Is. Owen.

The defign of thefe reflections is, 'to point out the true fource. from which the leading principles of our actions ought to flow; and to clear the fource itfelf from thofe mixtures, which in a couife of travelling have been often known to fully and correct its purity. For inftructions refpecting the political improvement that may be acquired by vifiting foreign countries, this author refers to other writers, and restricts himself entirely to religious admonitions; confidering the young nobleman as a traveller to a happier country.'

48. The English Lepidoptera; or Aurelian's Pocket Companion. 8vo. 256 Robfon.

The diftinct account here delivered of the infects, and the concise method in which it is arranged, cannot fail of rendering this treatise a very useful manual to the lovers of natural history.

49. An exa& Relation of the famous Earthquake and Eruption of Mount Etna, or Mount Gibello, A. D. 1699, &c. &c. 12mo? 15. 6d. Wilkie.

This narrative confifts of a letter formerly published from the earl of Winchester to Charles II. giving an account of the great eruption of mount Etna, in 1669; which is fucceeded by a more minute detail of the fame phenomenon, copied from a fcarce pamphlet. An original letter, to the late lord Lyttelton, is added, figned W. B. E. relative to the laft great eruption of that mountain, which is defcribed in fuch a ftrain as is perhaps hyperbolical even on fo tremendous a fubject.

50. Mrs. Margaret Caroline Rudd's Cafe, respecting Mr. R. Perreau, confidered. 8vo. Is. Wilkie.

This pamphlet is written with the view of eftablishing the criminality of Robert Perreau, notwithstanding his own declaration that he was innocent.

We have received a Letter from a Friend of Mr. S---y. In anfwer to which we beg Leave to observe, that no Man has a right to queftion the Innocence of a Perfon fairly and honourably acquitted in a Court of Juflice; and that it is not the Reviewers only, but Nature and Humanity, which speak in Favour of a much injured young Woman. +++ Mr. Ch. Brand's Letter will certainly appear in next Month's Review; with Obfervations, by a Correfpondent.

THE

CRITICAL REVIEW.

For the Month of February, 1776.

ARTICLE I.

A General Hiftory of Mufic, from the earliest Ages to the prefent Period. To which is prefixed, a Differtation on the Music of the Ancients. By Charles Burney, Muf. D. F. R. S. Vol. I. 4to. 17. 11. 6d. boards. Becket, Robson, and Robinson.

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Great proficiency in the practice of any of the fine arts is an accomplishment which juftly entitles those who have attained it to an honourable diftin&tion among mankind. But when such executive talents are joined to a scientific and critical knowledge of the principles of the art, when genius is adorned with learning, when the views of the artist extend beyond the technical bounds of his profeffion, and he informs as well as entertains the lovers of elegant endowments, the reputation he acquires arifes to a degree of celebrity that places him among the fuperior characters to which fame has awarded the palm of extraordinary abilities. We do not over-` rate the merit of the ingenious author whofe work now lies before us, when we apply to him the encomium here described. The account of the prefent State of Mufic in different Parts of Europe, which he formerly published, clearly fhewed the great extent of his knowledge, the strength of his judgment, and the perfection of his tafte, in what relates to that admirable art; and it muft afford particular pleafare, not only to the dilettanti, but the learned world, that a perfon fo eminently qualified for the undertaking, has profecuted the arduous attempt of inveftigating the mufic of the ancients; a VOL. XLI. Feb. 1776.

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